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Jake & JZ

Jake & JZ

The Startup Wayback Machine

· 60 min · Episode 3

Show notes

This week on episode 3 of Jake & JZ, we talked about:

• The Seinfeld Moviefone episode (”Why don’t you just tell me what the product does?”)
• The Startup Wayback Machine (continued!), our technique for learning from successful companies in their early days
• Websites through the years, including Uber in 2011, iPhone in 2007, Slack in 2014–2017
• Solving one problem well before you try to solve a bunch of problems
• A great LinkedIn post from Kushal Byatnal (founder of Character portfolio company Extend) about selling your product before you build it
• A fun tabletop analog game called…

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